Nobody's Stooge: Ted Healy (A Biography of the Stage and Screen Star Who Gave Birth to the Act That Became "The Three Stooges")
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Featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp
16.1 min. (Short Subject)
B. O. Pictures' president Mr. Baines wants to use the island of Rarabonga for his next musical extravaganza, but the natives don't know how to dance! So he sends studio choreographers Moe, Larry and Shemp to the south Pacific island as dance teachers. Unfortunately, the natives are head hunters under the control of witch doctor Varanu. On the run for their lives, the Stooges receive help from the King's daughter Luana, and attempt to gain the upper hand with a box of left-over World War II gernades guarded by a living three-armed totem idol.
The only Three Stooges short directed by producer Hugh McCollum.
The standard "3 Blind Mice" theme is replaced on the ending fadeout with the hula composition "Lu-Lu," composed by Ross DiMaggio and Nico Grigor; see The Three Stooges Journal # 96 (Winter 2000).
Shemp Howard
Shemp
Moe Howard
Moe
Larry Fine
Larry
Emil Sitka
Mr. Baines
Mike Mahoney
Mr. Laughingwell
Kenneth MacDonald
Varanu
Jean Willes
Luana
Heinie Conklin
King
Joy Windsor
Kiwana
Maxine Doviat
Native girl
Ralph Volkie
Native henchman
Lei Aloha
Multi-armed idol
Unidentified HULA-LA-LA 1
Mr. Brock
Unidentified HULA-LA-LA 2
Dancers
Unidentified HULA-LA-LA 4
Natives
Hugh McCollum
Producer
Hugh McCollum
Director
Edward Bernds
Story and Screenplay
Henry Freulich
Director of Photography
Edwin Bryant
Film Editor
Charles Clague
Art Director
Nico Grigor
Music
Ross DiMaggio
Music
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